SEC Drama workshop. Fake news.

From November 2021 to February 2022, sixteen students from our school carried out ten workshop sessions to discover the practice of acting, while reflecting on the themes of our E4L project around the circulation of information (including the danger of fake news on the theme of climate and the environment) in contemporary globalized society. An actor from the Bateau Feu (Dunkerque theatre, National Stage) came to our school to monitor the workshop. First, the actor gave them the text of the transcript of a programme   explaining fake news to young people on the Internet. The students read the text aloud as a first practice and made some cuts and selections (this step allowed the acquisition of historical and sociological knowledge).

The students also offered their own examples of fake news, chosen after conducting personal research. 

Some words were written on signs, shown at certain times of the performance. Each student had to do a big work of memorization of their text. They imagined together the staging, integrating a montage of sounds (voice, various music punctuating the staging). The tone chosen was that of a satire, committed humour. 

Costume elements (props, wigs, jackets) were used, as well as a speaker's desk, to get them to work on the interpretation, in a humorous register. Students have acquired knowledge, built their personal opinions, deconstructed stereotypes, developed their critical thinking. 

The performance in front of an audience took place on the stage of the Dunkerque theatre, in front of the families and partners of the Jean Bart high school. We also made a video recording directed by a professional videographer: Fabien Soret. They performed  the show again  on a stage, this time n front of their classmates and the adults of the school at the end of the year. These 3 artistic moments made it possible to value the students' investment, making them proud of their work.